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  • Japan’s Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power

    Democratic Resilience and the US-China Challenge

    by Victor Teo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book assesses the profound impact of Japan’s aspirations to become a great power on Japanese security, democracy and foreign relations. Rather than viewing the process of normalization and rejuvenation as two decades of remilitarization in face of rapidly changing strategic environment and domestic political circumstances, this volume contextualizes Japan’s contemporary ... Read more

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  • Cold War Redux Amidst Great Power Rivalry

    China and the Rise of the Global Right

    by Victor Teo ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides an introspective assessment of the conditions that have led to the bifurcated world we live in today. Utilizing a traditional Waltzian three "images” analysis, the book examines the conditions that prompted the Quad countries (US, Japan, India and Australia) to securitize their relations with their important trading partner, China over the past decade (2012-2022). Against a ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • God, Money and the Singaporean Me

    by Victor Teo ...
    Our lives greatly revolve around money. We use it daily for all kinds of transactions whether to buy a simple plate of chicken rice or to pay for a luxurious penthouse.Yet how many of us can say that we manage our money well? Do we know how much we actually spend and how much we have saved for retirement? For the Christian, how does God view our bank accounts?God, Money and the Singaporean Me can ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • Human-Animal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia

    Edited by Victor Teo ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book examines the theme of human–animal interactions contextualized against the idea of the Anthropocene.Focused on China and its immediate Asian borderlands, this interdisciplinary collection provides a powerful and insightful analysis of the ecological challenges that mankind’s traditional activities have created. Through in-depth case studies, each focusing on a particular human–animal ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Rethinking the San Francisco System in Indo-Pacific Security

    Enduring Legacies, Structural Contradictions and Geopolitical Rivalry

    Edited by Yoneyuki Sugita, Victor Teo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This remarkable collection commemorates the 70th anniversary of the 1951 San Francisco Peace Conference by revisiting the important legacies of both the Peace Treaty and the US-Japan Security Treaty have had on the peace and stability of the Asia-Pacific. Drawing on multiple perspectives, the volume conveys the hopes and fears that the authors have for the domestic and international politics of ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Japan’s Island Troubles with China and Korea

    Prospects and Challenges for Resolution

    Edited by Victor Teo, Haruko Satoh ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This book examines the Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute between Japan and China and the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute between Japan and Korea, in order to offer new perspectives on the possible approaches towards amelioration and resolution of these conflicts.Japan’s Island Troubles with China and Korea addresses the prospects of and challenges to achieving resolutions in the island disputes, rather than focusing ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Illicit Industries and China’s Shadow Economy

    Challenges and Prospects for Global Governance and Human Security

    Edited by Victor Teo, Sungwon Yoon ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This book considers a wide range of illicit industries in China, exploring what drives such activities, why consumers tolerate them to differing degrees, how attempts to regulate them are implemented and how such regulation is resisted. Industries considered include human smuggling, human organs trade, illicit pharmaceuticals, smuggling of animal parts, illegal logging and trade of woods, food ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Japan Viewed from Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    History and Prospects

    by Yoneyuki Sugita, Karl Gustafsson, Steven Heine, Toru Oga, Yuki Ooi, Nissim Otmazgin, John Paden, Juha Saunavaara, Mayako Shimamoto, Judith Snodgrass0, Marie Söderberg1, Victor Teo2, Marie Thorsten3, Christopher Weiss4, Bruce Cumings5 ...
    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    The growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Asia-Pacific region greatly surpasses the world average. When the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is better realized, then the world’s largest free trade zone will be firmly established. It seems that this region has a very rosy outlook indeed; however, this region also faces a large number of serious problems such as: atomic energy in ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    by Wolfgang Kinzelbach, Haijing Wang, Yu Li, Lu Wang, Ning Li ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief.Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves ... Read more

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  • Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution

    Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto, Rui Saraiva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situations ... Read more

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  • Words, Objects and Events in Economics

    The Making of Economic Theory

    Edited by Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume ... Read more

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  • Saving for Development

    How Latin America and the Caribbean Can Save More and Better

    by Inter-American Development Bank ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live productive and fulfilling lives, and make the most of their retirement years. Firms must save to grow their ... Read more

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